Hello all,
We're now announcing the December, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! December's contest will be "Warmoth/Professionally Finished" and requires at least a Warmoth neck or body to qualify.
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent, to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your unOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will posted to this message, which is December's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until December 10th, so get your cameras clicking!
January will be the Guitar of the Year contest, which will feature 2013 monthly contest winners! How exciting!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by tubby.twins
I built this guitar as a gift for a close friend of mine. The body is straight from the showcase (PS8218) and it has a gorgeous quilted maple top over a mahogany body. The natural masked binding really makes the purple dye finish look amazing. I had this body routed for a Wilkinson tremolo and three P-90 humbucker pickup routes, in which I installed a matched set of Lollar hand-wound Mini Humbucker pickups. The wiring is a simple 5-way switch with a volume and tone control. The neck is made of goncalo alves with a pau ferro fingerboard.
Guitar #2 by Justinianus
Warmoth Vintage Modern Stratocaster neck
One piece Flame Maple
Standard Thin shape
Clear Gloss Finish
SS6150 (Stainless) frets
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut
Black dot inlays
Chrome Fender Locking tuners (with brass bushings)
Silver Fender logo sticker
Warmoth Telecaster Thinline 72 body
Flame Maple Top
Mahogany body
Tiger Eye dye finish
Tobacco Burst back finish
Natural Masked binding
Gotoh massive steel block vintage tremolo with PRS nickel/brass saddles
Warmoth custom Cream Pearl Thinline 72 Pickguard
Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker bridge pickup
Seymour Duncan P-rails neck pickup (wired rails to middle and P90 to neck)
CRL Stratocaster 5 way switch
2 Fender TBX tone pots, one wired to neck and one to middle
Push/Push Volume pot with trebble bleed
3 way mini toggle switch for bridge s/s/p wiring
2 way mini toggle switch for 7 sound mod + bridge tone
Amber speed knobs
US tele input
Schaller strap locks
The wiring is something I designed myself, and I'm very pleased with the sounds it gives me. I basically used a standard stratocaster 5 way switch wiring with some extra mods. I use the P-rails as two seperate pickups with a push/push pot to get all 4 sound options (Rails (middle)/P90 (neck)/humbucking series/humbucking parallel (stratocaster *2 in between like sound)).
I wired the bridge pickup to a mini toggle switch to be able to switch between humbucker series/single coil/parallel wiring. The *4 position gives me bridge+rails pickups, and the 2 way toggle switch adds the p90 to the selected pickup and also adds the neck tone pot to the bridge (these options give a more Telecaster like sound). The bridge pickup doesn't have a tone pot, so it gives a ''hot'' output (around 16k) and a very Les Paul like sound. The rails pickup has a very Stratocaster like sound with the TBX control on 10 for ''boosted'' trebble (it's passive so it's more of a change in focus than an actual boost, allthough it does give it about 0.5k extra output). The P90 has the typical ''hot'' singlecoil sound, with the TBX control on 10 for extra clarity it's a bit like a boosted stratocaster neck pickup (I like it a lot! and couldn't do without the TBX anymore).
Guitar #3 by Ribeye
Body:
Swamp Ash telecaster shape
Sherwood Green finish
Mint Green pickguard
Wilkinson short tele bridge with compensated brass saddles
Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P90 pickups with black ring for bridge pickup
Chrome control plate, flatop knobs, neckplate, string ferrules, straplocks & screws
Electrosocket jackplate
500k CTS pots
3-way switchcraft switch
Vintage pushback wire
10-46 strings
Neck:
One piece maple
Strat shape headstock
Standard thin contour
Vintage tint satin finish
Vintage style Gotoh tuners with green keystone buttons
Chrome vintage round string guide
Guitar #4 by Rapfohl09
Anniversary Telecaster
Body - Flame maple capped mahogany body with a contoured heel and tummy cut. Routed for all of the standard tele options. Finished by Tonar as a sort of semblance to his "On Fire Thinline". Amber dyed topped with a slight black burst, clean line transition to a clear gloss back.
Neck - Boatneck contoured BE maple neck with an indian rosewood fretboard. Warmoth compound radius, 6150 frets, and fitted with vintage tuners. I cut the micarta nut myself. Finished with a few light coats of Tru-Oil that has gotten a slight amber hue with time.
Hardware/Etc. - A pretty straightforward guitar with a Gotoh tele bridge, GFS professional series tele pickups, Alpha electronics, and as mentioned before Gotoh vintage style tuners.
Guitar #5 by grabby
Guitar: Black Soloist
Body: Warmoth Soloist, one piece alder back and one piece quilt maple top
Neck: Warmoth Strat, birdseye maple on birdseye maple; gloss finish by Warmoth
Originally a 90s era body finished in blue/teal - I had Tonar refinish this baby in transparent black on the front and glossy black on the back and sides
Electronics: SD P-rails (flipped around) and triple shot rings
Hardware: Planet Waves locking tuners
Guitar #6 by Wolfie351
Body: Swamp Ash, Warmoth finished gloss black w/vintage tint masked binding
Neck: Bocote, unfinished
Hardware: Wilkinson WVP6 bridge, Planet Waves tuners, bocote pickguard
Electronics: Fender Custom Shop '54s
Guitar #7 Updown
Body ... Custom Build SG
Solid 1 - 3/4'' Thinkness
Swamp Ash
Rear Rout H x H (wood mount)
Contoured Heel
3/4'' Side Jack Hole
Routed for 2TEK Bridge
Graffiti Yellow
Neck … Custom Build, Warmoth Pro, Maple neck
Ebony Dark, unique choice Fretboard
Stainless Steal Frets SS6115
1 11/16" Nut width
Graph Tech Black TUSQ Nut
10 -16" Compound Radius,
Standard Thin Neck
Skull & Cross Bones (12th fret only)
Graffiti Yellow Peg Face
Clear Satin Nitro Finish
Sperzel Lok Tuners
Hardware...
2TEK Bridge
SD Invader (Neck) Black & Yellow
SD Invader (Bridge) Black & Yellow
Custom Dougie Neckplate & Truss Rod Cover, (painted by me)
2 x Vol, 2 x Tone Push / Push, CTS 500 Pots
Orange Drop Capacitors
Oval output socket
Black Schaller Strap Locks
Black Knobs with Yellow Dots
3 Way Toggle
Guitar #8 by hannaugh
"Sue"
Mahogany/flame maple chambered body
Tonar orangey/faded Iced Tea-ish burst nitro finish
Nickel Tonepros bridge & aluminum nickel tailpiece
Roadhouse PAF-style pickups w/nickel covers
Neckplate by Doug
Mahogany/rosewood neck (they told me it was the last LP neck ever custom ordered)
Tonar oil finish with nitro black face headstock
Grover mini locking tuners
Earvana shelf nut
We're now announcing the December, 2013 Guitar of the Month contest! December's contest will be "Warmoth/Professionally Finished" and requires at least a Warmoth neck or body to qualify.
Please read the GOM rules, which have been refined, with some slight changes, and are posted in a sticky in this forum area.
Submissions must be sent, to uwfgom@gmail.com, and contain two images no greater than 1024x768, along with your description and details of the instrument. Send your submission in plain text email. Your photos must be attachments to the email. Your unOfficialWarmoth Forum user name must be included in the body of the email.
In turn, your images will posted to this message, which is December's submission thread.
Submissions will be accepted until December 10th, so get your cameras clicking!
January will be the Guitar of the Year contest, which will feature 2013 monthly contest winners! How exciting!
As usual, all discussion for the submissions can take place below, along with other pictures hosted by the poster.
Good luck, and may the best guitar/bass win!
Guitar #1 by tubby.twins
I built this guitar as a gift for a close friend of mine. The body is straight from the showcase (PS8218) and it has a gorgeous quilted maple top over a mahogany body. The natural masked binding really makes the purple dye finish look amazing. I had this body routed for a Wilkinson tremolo and three P-90 humbucker pickup routes, in which I installed a matched set of Lollar hand-wound Mini Humbucker pickups. The wiring is a simple 5-way switch with a volume and tone control. The neck is made of goncalo alves with a pau ferro fingerboard.
Guitar #2 by Justinianus
Warmoth Vintage Modern Stratocaster neck
One piece Flame Maple
Standard Thin shape
Clear Gloss Finish
SS6150 (Stainless) frets
GraphTech Black TUSQ XL nut
Black dot inlays
Chrome Fender Locking tuners (with brass bushings)
Silver Fender logo sticker
Warmoth Telecaster Thinline 72 body
Flame Maple Top
Mahogany body
Tiger Eye dye finish
Tobacco Burst back finish
Natural Masked binding
Gotoh massive steel block vintage tremolo with PRS nickel/brass saddles
Warmoth custom Cream Pearl Thinline 72 Pickguard
Seymour Duncan JB Trembucker bridge pickup
Seymour Duncan P-rails neck pickup (wired rails to middle and P90 to neck)
CRL Stratocaster 5 way switch
2 Fender TBX tone pots, one wired to neck and one to middle
Push/Push Volume pot with trebble bleed
3 way mini toggle switch for bridge s/s/p wiring
2 way mini toggle switch for 7 sound mod + bridge tone
Amber speed knobs
US tele input
Schaller strap locks
The wiring is something I designed myself, and I'm very pleased with the sounds it gives me. I basically used a standard stratocaster 5 way switch wiring with some extra mods. I use the P-rails as two seperate pickups with a push/push pot to get all 4 sound options (Rails (middle)/P90 (neck)/humbucking series/humbucking parallel (stratocaster *2 in between like sound)).
I wired the bridge pickup to a mini toggle switch to be able to switch between humbucker series/single coil/parallel wiring. The *4 position gives me bridge+rails pickups, and the 2 way toggle switch adds the p90 to the selected pickup and also adds the neck tone pot to the bridge (these options give a more Telecaster like sound). The bridge pickup doesn't have a tone pot, so it gives a ''hot'' output (around 16k) and a very Les Paul like sound. The rails pickup has a very Stratocaster like sound with the TBX control on 10 for ''boosted'' trebble (it's passive so it's more of a change in focus than an actual boost, allthough it does give it about 0.5k extra output). The P90 has the typical ''hot'' singlecoil sound, with the TBX control on 10 for extra clarity it's a bit like a boosted stratocaster neck pickup (I like it a lot! and couldn't do without the TBX anymore).
Guitar #3 by Ribeye
Body:
Swamp Ash telecaster shape
Sherwood Green finish
Mint Green pickguard
Wilkinson short tele bridge with compensated brass saddles
Seymour Duncan Phat Cat P90 pickups with black ring for bridge pickup
Chrome control plate, flatop knobs, neckplate, string ferrules, straplocks & screws
Electrosocket jackplate
500k CTS pots
3-way switchcraft switch
Vintage pushback wire
10-46 strings
Neck:
One piece maple
Strat shape headstock
Standard thin contour
Vintage tint satin finish
Vintage style Gotoh tuners with green keystone buttons
Chrome vintage round string guide
Guitar #4 by Rapfohl09
Anniversary Telecaster
Body - Flame maple capped mahogany body with a contoured heel and tummy cut. Routed for all of the standard tele options. Finished by Tonar as a sort of semblance to his "On Fire Thinline". Amber dyed topped with a slight black burst, clean line transition to a clear gloss back.
Neck - Boatneck contoured BE maple neck with an indian rosewood fretboard. Warmoth compound radius, 6150 frets, and fitted with vintage tuners. I cut the micarta nut myself. Finished with a few light coats of Tru-Oil that has gotten a slight amber hue with time.
Hardware/Etc. - A pretty straightforward guitar with a Gotoh tele bridge, GFS professional series tele pickups, Alpha electronics, and as mentioned before Gotoh vintage style tuners.
Guitar #5 by grabby
Guitar: Black Soloist
Body: Warmoth Soloist, one piece alder back and one piece quilt maple top
Neck: Warmoth Strat, birdseye maple on birdseye maple; gloss finish by Warmoth
Originally a 90s era body finished in blue/teal - I had Tonar refinish this baby in transparent black on the front and glossy black on the back and sides
Electronics: SD P-rails (flipped around) and triple shot rings
Hardware: Planet Waves locking tuners
Guitar #6 by Wolfie351
Body: Swamp Ash, Warmoth finished gloss black w/vintage tint masked binding
Neck: Bocote, unfinished
Hardware: Wilkinson WVP6 bridge, Planet Waves tuners, bocote pickguard
Electronics: Fender Custom Shop '54s
Guitar #7 Updown
Body ... Custom Build SG
Solid 1 - 3/4'' Thinkness
Swamp Ash
Rear Rout H x H (wood mount)
Contoured Heel
3/4'' Side Jack Hole
Routed for 2TEK Bridge
Graffiti Yellow
Neck … Custom Build, Warmoth Pro, Maple neck
Ebony Dark, unique choice Fretboard
Stainless Steal Frets SS6115
1 11/16" Nut width
Graph Tech Black TUSQ Nut
10 -16" Compound Radius,
Standard Thin Neck
Skull & Cross Bones (12th fret only)
Graffiti Yellow Peg Face
Clear Satin Nitro Finish
Sperzel Lok Tuners
Hardware...
2TEK Bridge
SD Invader (Neck) Black & Yellow
SD Invader (Bridge) Black & Yellow
Custom Dougie Neckplate & Truss Rod Cover, (painted by me)
2 x Vol, 2 x Tone Push / Push, CTS 500 Pots
Orange Drop Capacitors
Oval output socket
Black Schaller Strap Locks
Black Knobs with Yellow Dots
3 Way Toggle
Guitar #8 by hannaugh
"Sue"
Mahogany/flame maple chambered body
Tonar orangey/faded Iced Tea-ish burst nitro finish
Nickel Tonepros bridge & aluminum nickel tailpiece
Roadhouse PAF-style pickups w/nickel covers
Neckplate by Doug
Mahogany/rosewood neck (they told me it was the last LP neck ever custom ordered)
Tonar oil finish with nitro black face headstock
Grover mini locking tuners
Earvana shelf nut
